Windows 7 RC

gaming_guy

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Yeah I tried the same, only I had to hack it to get it to install. Not overly slow either!:D

the only problem i had was a horrible, horrible 640*480 screen res :eek:

but it was pretty fast compared to ubuntu 8.04.2

4743hudsonj

ive had a great experience with it

looks sharp

good response

the new gui and navigation feels more intuative and instinctual to me, like ive done it before

and boot times on my maching compared to vista

vista (with no software on it atall apart from ie) averaged 1 min 18 seconds

win 7 rc1 averages just 37 seconds with lots of software on it


i mean thats pretty good

i also notice that it only consumes 400 mb at resting compared to vistas 860mb


all for the trouble of a few drivers

msun

I have the following setup for comparative testing on an IBM T42 laptop with 1GB memory::-

Windows XP Home on partition1
Ubuntu 9.04 on partition 2
Windows 7 RC1 on partition 3
My data on partition 4

The boot menu runs as a "GRUB" menu installed as part of Ubuntu - it allows choice of operating system to start up with access to the common data partition.

XP is my main original system and I still think it is fastest and most compatible with wide range of software and peripheral hardware.

I quite like Windows 7 - it is much more resource hungry but seems robust with surprisingly good boot up times and general performance. There are the expected compatibility issues with older software which needs Googling for workarounds.

Ubuntu is fastest for boot up, installation and setup but is not so "mainstream" I guess.

Overall, I would stick with XP for older systems but would accept Windows 7 on a competent new machine.

Cheers from Mike

Ross_Strachan

msun wrote: »

I quite like Windows 7 - it is much more resource hungry but seems robust with surprisingly good boot up times and general performance. There are the expected compatibility issues with older software which needs Googling for workarounds.

Cheers from Mike

Mike, from Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite WIndows 7 RC review -

"Windows XP Mode combines a next-generation version of Virtual PC with application publishing functionality and a full Windows XP virtual machine to provide businesses with a way to seamlessly run legacy Windows applications under XP side-by-side with applications running natively under Windows 7. Like Windows Live Essentials, XP Mode will not be included "in the box" with Windows 7. Instead, it will be provided as a free download for users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate"

This may help you with compatability problems!

Marty_J

Ross_Strachan wrote: »

Mike, from Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite WIndows 7 RC review -

"Windows XP Mode combines a next-generation version of Virtual PC with application publishing functionality and a full Windows XP virtual machine to provide businesses with a way to seamlessly run legacy Windows applications under XP side-by-side with applications running natively under Windows 7. Like Windows Live Essentials, XP Mode will not be included "in the box" with Windows 7. Instead, it will be provided as a free download for users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate"

This may help you with compatability problems!

You'll also need a compatible processor, and it's only really intended for office-type applications.

savemoney

I was having stability problems the last 2 days in xp sp3 so I thought, what the hell I will shove a the iso on a disc I got from MS and installed it

Firstly the install was slow, it does appear that after the 1st progress from a black screen nothing appears to happen for 10 minutes. Once that's done it was fine, I thought it crashed at first, I even ended up restarting thing it hung up.

Anyhow, once installed its great much faster than Vista 64 Iw as using on other pc, I am now using windows 7 64 bit. All hardware was supports, but I did update the drivers for the Nvidia card, and installed commodo av/firewall

Really pleased so far with it. I don't have a fast pc the one I am using now, just a dual core 2 2.13ghz with 2gb ram

savemoney

After a couple of day evaluation I must say windows 7 is a breathe of fresh air it appears to run a lot smoother for me on my dual core 2.13ghz server than XP sp3 did and it appears better than Vista 64 bit sp1 on another pc we have

Seems to support all hardware we have without any extra drivers

Percy1983

This puely a marketing thing, many people hate Vista without any real reason and microsoft know this. It had to be replaced purely due to this.

This would be a vista service pack if vista was popular.

Marty_J

Percy1983 wrote: »

This puely a marketing thing, many people hate Vista without any real reason and microsoft know this. It had to be replaced purely due to this.

This would be a vista service pack if vista was popular.

Yep.

It's funny to hear how people think it's so much faster than Vista, yet benchmarks show no such thing (and in some cases, the complete opposite).

I guess the emperor has new clothes.

4743hudsonj

Marty_J wrote: »

Yep.

It's funny to hear how people think it's so much faster than Vista, yet benchmarks show no such thing (and in some cases, the complete opposite).

I guess the emperor has new clothes.

it is faster in its responses due to its management of allocating cpu and ram to specific tasks. not allowing anyone program to bottleneck the system, only itself

thats why people view it as faster

plus it does actually use less resources in my case so it allows more for other programs t work with

oh and boot times are better

i do realise those bencmarks say otherwise but after all, its how it feels that the end user will be more concerned about, most people will like it aslong as it seems faster to them

its a placebo for vista:beer: